Interactive Case Study - July 2009

Chronic abdominal pain with history of hematuria: the challenge of pelvic congestion

Andrew K. Kurklinsky, M.D., MACP ; Thom W. Rooke, M.D.

Author Profiles:

Dr. Kurklinsky is a vascular medicine fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and a member of the Society for Vascular Medicine.

Dr. Thom Rooke is currently Krehbiel Professor of Vascular Medicine.  Dr. Rooke serves on a number of national boards, committees, and societies. He has a long history of service to the Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM).  He has successfully organized the 2005 and the 2006 Board Review Course in Vascular Medicine.  Dr. Rooke is President of the SVM.  His major area of interest remains non-invasive vascular testing; and toward that end, he is President of the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).

Dr. Rooke's interests include medical writing – fact and fiction, peripheral vascular medicine, varicose veins, swollen limbs, and the art of the medical lecture.