The Amalfi Coast, south of Naples, is still a magnet for wealthy Russians and romantic Americans. Yet Naples itself is a tourist wasteland, and the rest of southern Italy is largely vacationer-free. Only 13 percent of tourists who come to Italy go to the Mezzogiorno, as the south is known.
Depending on where a stone blocks the flow of bile, symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, fever, and severe abdominal pain that lasts longer than 6 hours. If you have these symptoms, you may need surgery to remove your gallbladder or the gallstone causing the blockage.
However, if it leads to the formation of cholesterol stones, then the symptoms of gallstones may be present. It is also more likely to cause primary bile duct stones which are stones that form in the bile duct rather than gallstones that form in the gallbladder and then pass into the bile duct.