Bleeding from esophageal varices is considered as a devastating complication of theportal hypertension, with a high rate of mortality. However, prophylaxis and management of bleeding fromesophageal varices currently is still a matter of debate for children with portal hypertension. According to endoscopic criteria and recent reports, endoscopic reduction of esophageal varices (EST, EVL) has been considered as a beneficial and important method in children population.
Slovenia is doing a lot of work on making public data publicly available. The Ministry of Public Administration has a project that covers all public databases – Open data governmental portals. There is another portal, called ERAR, that has been originally started by Goran Klemencic, while presiding the Commission for Prevention of Corruption of Slovenia. In this database you have all information about all state expenditures: sources of funds, expenditures, and purpose of used funds.