1 Brit pint is equal to 0.568 litre, 1 US pint to 0.473 litre. 2. (Units) a unit of dry measure of capacity equal to one half of a quart. 1 US dry pint is equal to one sixty-fourth of a US bushel or 0.5506 litre. 3. a measure having such a capacity. 4.
A pulmonary infiltrate is a substance denser than air, such as pus, blood, or protein, which lingers within the parenchyma of the lungs. Pulmonary infiltrates are associated with pneumonia, tuberculosis, and nocardiosis. Pulmonary infiltrates can be observed on a chest radiograph.
Patients who are smokers are susceptible to a form of interstitial lung disease called desquamative interstitial pneumonitis that can have ground glass infiltrates. Smokers are also at risk for lung cancer and one type of lung cancer that can present as a ground glass infiltrate is bronchoalveolar cell carcinoma. The bottom line is that ground glass infiltrates can be caused by many different types of conditions but they are never a normal finding in the lung. If the ground glass infiltrates persist, we usually do a bronchoscopy or a lung biopsy in order to determine their cause.