Vapreotide
Vapreotide
Pharmaceutical drug
Vapreotide (Sanvar) is a synthetic somatostatin analog. It is used in the treatment of esophageal variceal bleeding[1][2] in patients with cirrhotic liver disease and AIDS-related diarrhea.[3]
It is an 8 residue peptide with sequence H-D-Phe-Cys(1)-Tyr-D-Trp-Lys-Val-Cys(1)-Trp-NH2.