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Response to letter to the editor regarding “A retrospective study of the effect of fibrinogen levels during fresh frozen plasma transfusion in patients with traumatic brain injury”

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  1. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8603, Japan

    Ryuta Nakae, Shoji Yokobori, Yasuhiro Takayama, Takahiro Kanaya, Yutaka Igarashi, Akira Fuse & Hiroyuki Yokota

  2. Emergency and Critical Care Center, Kawaguchi Municipal Medical Center, Saitama, Japan

    Yu Fujiki, Go Suzuki & Yasutaka Naoe

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Nakae, R., Yokobori, S., Takayama, Y. et al. Response to letter to the editor regarding “A retrospective study of the effect of fibrinogen levels during fresh frozen plasma transfusion in patients with traumatic brain injury”. Acta Neurochir 161, 2481–2482 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-019-04078-x

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