Hypoalbuminemia: a cause of fetal hydrops?
Our finding that most fetuses with immune hydrops have an albumin concentration within the normal range (71%) suggests that hypoalbuminemia is unlikely to cause the initial development of immune hydrops.
On the basis of previous observations, loss of tumor suppressor p53 function either by mutation or human papillomavirus involvement is a frequent phenomenon in cervical carcinoma cells. It appears now that functional inactivation of p53 is associated also with vulvar carcinoma cell lines, but mutations of the p53 gene are much more common in vulvar than in cervical carcinoma cell lines.