title: Multimodality treatment for cardiac angiosarcoma.
abstract: Primary cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare and highly malignant condition. Besides performing complete surgical excision, it remains controversial as to whether survival can be improved with additional treatment. We herein describe a 30-year-old man with a right atrial angiosarcoma. He underwent two operations for the resection of the primary lesion, and the patient's metastatic lesions involved an intestinal segment. With chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and molecular targeted therapy, he survived for 33 months. The literature describing adjuvant therapy for cardiac angiosarcoma, which is mostly case reports, is also reviewed. In conclusion, the limited evidence suggests that multimodality treatment for cardiac angiosarcoma is a beacon of hope to improve the survival of such patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ganglan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Huiqi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Kuan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hua
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*