Patent ID: 8865681

Claim:
A method of treating a disease or disorder of the eye in a subject comprising the step of contacting said subject with a compound comprising a lipid or phospholipid moiety bound optionally via a spacer to a physiologically acceptable monomer, dimer, oligomer, or polymer via an ester or amide bond, and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a pharmaceutical product thereof, wherein the compound is represented by the structure of the general formula (A): wherein L is a lipid or a phospholipid; Z is either nothing, ethanolamine, serine, inositol, choline, phosphate, or glycerol; Y is either nothing or a spacer group ranging in length from 2 to 30 atoms; X is polygeline or polypyranose; and n is a number from 2 to 1000; wherein any bond between L, Z, Y and X is either an amide or an esteric bond and the disease or disorder of the eye is retinopathy, glaucoma, macular degeneration or retinal detachment.