Are you in your emergency medicine clerkship? Is a patient presenting with tenderness to palpation in the right upper quadrant, jaundice, fever, and signs of hemodynamic instability? If so, tune into today's #DiagnosticsOnDemand to walk through diagnosing cholecystitis.

Acute cholecystitis is a sudden inflammation of the gallbladder, usually caused by conditions that impair the outflow of bile. Think of the biliary tree as one of the many plumbing systems in the body!

Disrupted bile outflow increases the pressure within the gallbladder, leading to bile stasis. This in turn can lead to complications such as inflammation, infection, gangrene, and perforation.

Acute cholecystitis is most commonly related to a stone, which is called calculous cholecystitis. However, gallbladder inflammation can also occur without stones, which is known as acalculous cholecystitis.

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