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Volume 148, Issue 3, Pages 746-751 (September 2015) Intrapleural Fibrinolysis for the Treatment of Indwelling Pleural Catheter-Related Symptomatic Loculations Rajesh Thomas, MBBS, Francesco Piccolo, MBBS, Daniel Miller, MD, Paul R. MacEachern, MD, FCCP, Alex C. Chee, MD, FCCP, Taha Huseini, MBBS, Lonny Yarmus, DO, FCCP, Rahul Bhatnagar, MBChB, Hans J. Lee, MD, FCCP, David Feller-Kopman, MD, FCCP, Nick A. Maskell, DM, FCCP, Alain Tremblay, MDCM, FCCP, Y. C. Gary Lee, PhD, FCCP CHEST Volume 148, Issue 3, Pages 746-751 (September 2015) DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-2401 Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Pleural fluid drained after fibrinolytic therapy. IQR = interquartile range. CHEST 2015 148, 746-751DOI: (10.1378/chest.14-2401) Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Change in effusion size on chest radiograph. CHEST 2015 148, 746-751DOI: (10.1378/chest.14-2401) Copyright © 2015 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions