A new synthetic vasoconstrictor was investigated and compared with adrenaline (1 : 80,000) during a series of 364 hair-transplant operations. The new agent, ornithine-8-vasopressin (“POR-8”, Sandoz), is clinically at least as effective as adrenaline in cutaneous surgery, but has none of the unpleasant side effects associated with the use of catecholamines.
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