Rahul A. Sheth, M.D., F.S.I.R.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Grimm SL, Karki M, Blum KA, Bertocchio JP, He R, Tripathi DN, Zacharias NM, Lebenthal JM, Sheth RA, Rao P, Genovese G, Lu Z, Bast RC, Ingram DR, Lazcano R, Wani KM, Wang WL, Lazar AJ, Tannir NM, Walker CL, Coarfa C, Msaouel P. CA-125 as a biomarker in renal medullary carcinoma: Integrated molecular profiling, functional characterization, and prospective clinical validation. Clin Cancer Res 31(6):1057-1068, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39836407.
2. Odisio BC, Albuquerque J, Lin YM, Anderson BM, O'Connor CS, Rigaud B, Briones-Dimayuga M, Jones AK, Fellman BM, Huang SY, Kuban J, Metwalli ZA, Sheth R, Habibollahi P, Patel M, Shah KY, Cox VL, Kang HC, Morris VK, Kopetz S, Javle MM, Kaseb A, Tzeng CW, Cao HT, Newhook T, Chun YS, Vauthey JN, Gupta S, Paolucci I, Brock KK. Software-based versus visual assessment of the minimal ablative margin in patients with liver tumours undergoing percutaneous thermal ablation (COVER-ALL): a randomised phase 2 trial. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 13(S2468-1253):25. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40090348.
3. Jiwani R, Pal K, Paolucci I, Odisio B, Brock K, Tannir NM, Shapiro DD, Msaouel P, Sheth RA. Differentiating between renal medullary and clear cell renal carcinoma with a machine learning radiomics approach. Oncologist 30(2):oyae377, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39963829.
4. Msaouel P, Yu K, Yuan Y, Chen J, Yan X, Karki M, Duan F, Sheth RA, Rao P, Sircar K, Shah AY, Zurita AJ, Genovese G, Li M, Yeh CC, Dang M, Han G, Chu Y, Hallin M, Olson P, Yang R, Slavin D, Der-Torossian H, Chin CD, Tannir NM, Wang L, Gao J. Sitravatinib in combination with nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a phase 1 trial. Nat Commun 16(1):578, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39794332.
5. Nelson BE, O'Brien S, Sheth RA, Hong DS, Naing A, Zhang X, Xu A, Hamuro L, Suryawanshi R, McKinley D, Novosiadly RD, Piha-Paul SA. Phase I study of BMS-986299, an NLRP3 agonist, as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with advanced solid tumors. J Immunother Cancer 13(1), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39824531.
6. Patel P, Pal K, Ahmed H, Tang B, Paolucci I, Khavandi M, Habibollahi P, Shah K, Huang SY, Odisio BC, Gupta S, Ahrar K, Yevich S, Kuban JD, Tam A, Sheth RA. Screening for percutaneous lung cryoablation adverse event risk: A single center comparative analysis to surgical risk estimates. J Am Coll Radiol S1546-1440(24):01001-9. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39706458.
7. Pal K, Awad A, Yevich S, Kuban JD, Tam AL, Huang SY, Odisio BC, Gupta S, Habibollahi P, Bishop AJ, Conley AP, Somaiah N, Araujo D, Zarzour MA, Ravin R, Roland CL, Keung EZ, Sheth RA. Safety and efficacy of percutaneous cryoablation for recurrent or metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma in adult patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol 223(4):e2431490, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39082849.
8. Wilkins LR, Sheth RA, Tabori NE, Tam AL. Caveat Lector: The Importance of Becoming a Discerning Guidelines Reader. J Vasc Interv Radiol 36(1):1-8, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39383936.
9. Chahla B, Pal K, Balderrama-Brondani V, Yaylaci F, Campbell MT, Sheth RA, Habra MA. Clinical outcomes of image-guided therapies in patients with adrenocortical carcinoma: a tertiary referral center retrospective study. Oncologist 29(10):850-858, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38869364.
10. Campbell MT, Shah AY, Msaouel P, Tannir NM, Siefker-Radtke AO, Kamat AM, Navai N, Dinney CPN, Rao P, Guo CC, Sheth RA, Venkatesan AM, Tidwell RS, Yadav SS, Gu A, Chen H, Macaluso M, Duan F, Basu S, Jindal S, Sharma P. A pilot study of the CD38 antagonist daratumumab in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma or muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Cancer Res Commun 4(9):2444-2453, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39207194.
11. Pal K, Patel M, Chen SR, Odisio BC, Metwalli Z, Ahrar J, Irwin D, Sheth RA, Kuban JD. A single-center experience with a shear-thinning conformable embolic. J Vasc Interv Radiol 35(8):1215-1220, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38719091.
12. Awad A, Pal K, Yevich S, Kuban JD, Tam A, Odisio BC, Gupta S, Habibollahi P, Bishop AJ, Conley AP, Somaiah N, Araujo DM, Zarzour MA, Ratan R, Roland CL, Keung EZ, Huang SY, Sheth RA. Safety and efficacy of percutaneous image-guided ablation for soft tissue sarcoma metastases to the liver. Cancer 130(15):2703-2712, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38642369.
13. Siddiqui BA, Palaskas NL, Basu S, Dai Y, He Z, Yadav SS, Allison JP, Sheth RA, Tummala S, Buja M, Bhattacharjee MB, Iliescu C, Rawther-Karedath A, Deswal A, Wang L, Sharma P, Subudhi SK. Molecular pathways and cellular subsets associated with adverse clinical outcomes in overlapping immune-related myocarditis and myositis. Cancer Immunol Res 12(8):964-987, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38768394.
14. Lebenthal JM, Kontoyiannis PD, Hahn AW, Lim ZD, Rao P, Cheng JP, Chan B, Daw NC, Sheth RA, Karam JA, Tang C, Tannir NM, Msaouel P. Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with renal medullary carcinoma: A single-center retrospective analysis of 135 patients. Eur Urol Oncol 8(2):315-323. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39013742.
15. Patel RM, Pal K, Ahmed SH, Kuban JD, Patel M, Shah K, Habibollahi P, Metwalli Z, Gurusamy V, Gupta S, Rojas-Hernandez CM, Afshar-Kharghan V, Kroll MH, Sheth RA. Mechanical venous thrombectomy for deep venous thrombosis in cancer patients: A single-center retrospective study. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 47(5):556-566, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38548981.
16. Luke JJ, Davar D, Andtbacka RH, Bhardwaj N, Brody JD, Chesney J, Coffin R, de Baere T, de Gruijl TD, Fury M, Goldmacher G, Harrington KJ, Kaufman H, Kelly CM, Khilnani AD, Liu K, Loi S, Long GV, Melero I, Middleton M, Neyns B, Pinato DJ, Sheth RA, Solomon SB, Szapary P, Marabelle A. Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) recommendations on intratumoral immunotherapy clinical trials (IICT): from premalignant to metastatic disease. J Immunother Cancer 12(4):e008378, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38641350.
17. Knisely A, Hinchcliff E, Fellman B, Mosley A, Lito K, Hull S, Westin SN, Sood AK, Schmeler KM, Taylor JS, Huang SY, Sheth RA, Lu KH, Jazaeri AA. Phase 1b study of intraperitoneal ipilimumab and nivolumab in patients with recurrent gynecologic malignancies with peritoneal carcinomatosis. Med 5(4):311-320.e3, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38471508.
18. Hopper, TA, Miranda, R, Sheth, RA, Rojas Hernandez, CM. Arterial Thromboembolism in a Patient With Cancer With Unclear Etiology. Ann Intern Med 3(10), 2024. e-Pub 2024.
19. Bottiglieri A, Sheth RA, Prakash P. A computational modeling approach to investigate the influence of hyperthermia on the tumor microenvironment. J Vis Exp 2023(202), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38108384.
20. McDonald RG, Poulos DA, Woodall B, Gutzwiller L, Sheth RA, Good BC, Crouch AC. A MALDI mass spectrometry imaging sample preparation method for venous thrombosis with initial lipid characterization of lab-made and murine clots. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 34(9):1879-1889, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37439461.
21. Mohanty, S, Sheth, RA. Driving the immune response through image-guided cancer therapies. Adv Clin Radiol 5(1):91-98, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
22. Gonzalez-Delgado R, Muñoz NM, Carlos-Alcalde W, Cho MS, Lee H, Jin J, Serpas V, Gorlova O, Sheth RA, Afshar-Kharghan V. Role of circulating mitochondria in venous thrombosis in glioblastoma. J Thromb Haemost 21(8):2202-2212, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37178770.
23. Barsoumian HB, Sheth RA, Ramapriyan R, Hsu E, Gagea M, Crowley K, Sezen D, Williams M, Welsh JW. Radiation therapy modulates tumor physical characteristics to reduce intratumoral pressure and enhance intratumoral drug delivery and retention. Adv Radiat Oncol 8(2):101137, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36632088.
24. Chamani F, Pyle MM, Shrestha TB, Sebek J, Bossmann SH, Basel MT, Sheth RA, Prakash P. In vitro measurement and mathematical modeling of thermally-induced injury in pancreatic cancer cells. Cancers (Basel) 15(3):655, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36765619.
25. Abdelsalam ME, Awad A, Baiomy A, Irwin D, Karam JA, Matin SF, Sheth RA, Habibollahi P, Odisio BC, Lu T, Ahrar K. Outcomes of radiofrequency ablation for solitary T1a renal cell carcinoma: A 20-year tertiary cancer center experience. Cancers (Basel) 15(3):909, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36765867.
26. Tan JY, Li Y, Chamani F, Tharzeen A, Prakash P, Natarajan B, Sheth RA, Park WM, Kim A, Yoon D, Kim J. Experimental validation of diffraction lithography for fabrication of solid microneedles. Materials (Basel) 15(24):8934, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36556744.
27. Pavuluri S, Sheth RA. Overcoming biophysical barriers with innovative therapeutic delivery approaches. Cancer Gene Ther 29(12):1847-1853, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36076063.
28. Muñoz NM, Dupuis C, Williams M, Dixon K, McWatters A, Zhang J, Pavuluri S, Rao A, Duda DG, Kaseb A, Sheth RA. Immune modulation by molecularly targeted photothermal ablation in a mouse model of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis. Sci Rep 12(1):14449, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36002545.
29. Daher M, Varghese J, Gruschkus SK, Jimenez C, Waguespack SG, Bedrose S, Altameemi L, Bazerbashi H, Naing A, Subbiah V, Campbell MT, Shah AY, Zhang M, Sheth RA, Karam JA, Wood CG, Perrier ND, Graham PH, Lee JE, Habra MA. Temporal trends in outcomes in patients with adrenocortical carcinoma: A multidisciplinary referral center experience. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 107(5):1239-1246, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35092681.
30. Nash AM, Jarvis MI, Aghlara-Fotovat S, Mukherjee S, Hernandez A, Hecht AD, Rios PD, Ghani S, Joshi I, Isa D, Cui Y, Nouraein S, Lee JZ, Xu C, Zhang DY, Sheth RA, Peng W, Oberholzer J, Igoshin OA, Jazaeri AA, Veiseh O. Clinically translatable cytokine delivery platform for eradication of intraperitoneal tumors. Sci Adv 8(9):eabm1032, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35235346.
31. McCarthy CJ, Sheth RA, Patel RJ, Cheung SH, Simon NZ, Huang SY, Gupta S. Deployment of an Interventional Radiology telemedicine program during the COVID-19 pandemic: Initial experience with 10,056 visits. J Am Coll Radiol 19(2 Pt A):243-250, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35016874.
32. Sasano T, Gonzalez-Delgado R, Muñoz NM, Carlos-Alcade W, Cho MS, Sheth RA, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. Podoplanin promotes tumor growth, platelet aggregation, and venous thrombosis in murine models of ovarian cancer. J Thromb Haemost 20(1):104-114, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34608736.
33. Yevich S, Chen S, Metwalli Z, Kuban J, Lee S, Habibollahi P, McCarthy CJ, Irwin D, Huang S, Sheth RA. Radiofrequency ablation of spine metastases: A clinical and technical approach. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 25(6):795-804, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34937119.
34. Adnan A, Sheth RA. Image-guided percutaneous biopsy of the liver. Tech Vasc Interv Radiol 24(4):100773, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34895710.
35. Campbell MT, Matin SF, Tam AL, Sheth RA, Ahrar K, Tidwell RS, Rao P, Karam JA, Wood CG, Tannir NM, Jonasch E, Gao J, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Jindal S, Duan F, Basu S, Chen H, Espejo AB, Allison JP, Yadav SS, Sharma P. Pilot study of tremelimumab with and without cryoablation in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun 12(1):6375, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34737281.
36. Litwin RJ, Tam AL, Sheth RA, Yevich SM, Chan JL, Jazaeri AA, Halm JK, Gupta S, Huang SY. Safety and efficacy of percutaneous transabdominal and transesophageal decompression gastric catheters for palliation of malignant bowel obstruction. Abdom Radiol (NY) 46(9):4489-4498, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33999283.
37. Lin JS, Mamlouk O, Selamet U, Tchakarov A, Glass WF, Sheth RA, Layman RM, Dadu R, Abdelwahab N, Abdelrahim M, Diab A, Yee C, Abudayyeh A. Infliximab for the treatment of patients with checkpoint inhibitor–associated acute tubular interstitial nephritis. Oncoimmunology 10(1):Article: 1877415, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33643693.
38. Muñoz NM, Williams M, Dixon K, Dupuis C, McWatters A, Avritscher R, Manrique SZ, McHugh K, Murthy R, Tam A, Naing A, Patel SP, Leach D, Hartgerink JD, Young S, Prakash P, Hwu P, Sheth RA. Influence of injection technique, drug formulation and tumor microenvironment on intratumoral immunotherapy delivery and efficacy. J Immunother Cancer 9(2):e001800, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33589526.
39. Muñoz NM, Dupuis C, Williams M, Dixon K, McWatters A, Avritscher R, Bouchard R, Kaseb A, Schachtschneider KM, Rao A, Sheth RA. Molecularly targeted photothermal ablation improves tumor specificity and immune modulation in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma. Commun Biol 3(1):783, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33335270.
40. Sheth RA, Baerlocher MO, Connolly BL, Dariushnia SR, Shyn PB, Vatsky S, Tam AL, Gupta S. Society of Interventional Radiology quality improvement standards on percutaneous needle biopsy in adult and pediatric patients. J Vasc Interv Radiol 31(11):1840-1848, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33011015.
41. Kuban JD, Lee SR, Yevich S, Metwalli Z, McCarthy CJ, Huang S, Tam AL, Gupta S, Sheth SA, Sheth RA. Changes in inferior vena cava filter placement and retrieval practice patterns from a population health perspective. Abdom Radiol (NY) 45(11):3907-3914, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32285179.
42. Wang C, Kuban JD, Lee SR, Yevich S, Metwalli Z, McCarthy CJ, Sheth SA, Sheth RA. Utilization of endovascular and surgical treatments for symptomatic uterine leiomyomas: A population health perspective. J Vasc Interv Radiol 31(10):1552-1559.e1, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32917502.
43. Niekamp A, Kuban JD, Lee SR, Yevich S, Metwalli Z, McCarthy CJ, Huang SY, Sheth SA, Sheth RA. Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts reduce variceal bleeding and improve survival in patients with cirrhosis: A population-based analysis. J Vasc Interv Radiol 31(9):1382-1391.e2, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32792277.
44. Hill A, Elakkad A, Kuban J, Sabir S, Odisio B, Huang SY, Mahvash A, Miller E, Kroll MH, Overman M, Tam AL, Gupta S, Sheth RA. Durability of partial splenic artery embolization on platelet counts for cancer patients with hypersplenism-related thrombocytopenia. Abdom Radiol (NY) 45(9):2886-2894, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32314004.
45. Sheth RA, Murthy R, Hong DS, Patel S, Overman MJ, Diab A, Hwu P, Tam A. Assessment of image-guided intratumoral delivery of immunotherapeutics in patients with cancer. JAMA Netw Open 3(7):e207911, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32725245.
46. Balabhadra S, Kuban JD, Lee S, Yevich S, Metwalli Z, McCarthy CJ, Huang SY, Tam A, Gupta S, Sheth SA, Sheth RA. Association of inferior vena cava filter placement with rates of pulmonary embolism in patients with cancer and acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis. JAMA Netw Open 3(7):e2011079, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32701160.
47. Krishnamurthy S, Sabir S, Ban K, Wu Y, Sheth R, Tam A, Meric-Bernstam F, Shaw K, Mills G, Bassett R, Hamilton S, Hicks M, Gupta S. Comparison of real-time fluorescence confocal digital microscopy with hematoxylin-eosin-stained sections of core-needle biopsy specimens. JAMA Netw Open 3(3):e200476, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32134465.
48. Wang CY, Hu J, Sheth RA, Oklu R. Emerging embolic agents in endovascular embolization: An overview. Prog Biomed Eng (Bristol) 2(1):012003, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 34553126.
49. Sheth RA, Wen X, Li J, Melancon MP, Ji X, Wang YA, Hsiao CH, Chow DS, Whitley EM, Li C, Gupta S. Doxorubicin-loaded hollow gold nanospheres for dual photothermal ablation and chemoembolization therapy. Cancer Nanotechnol 11(1):6, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 34335988.
50. Krishnamurthy S, Ban K, Shaw K, Mills G, Sheth R, Tam A, Gupta S, Sabir S. Confocal fluorescence microscopy platform suitable for rapid evaluation of small fragments of tissue in surgical pathology practice. Arch Pathol Lab Med 143(3):305-313, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30376375.
51. Perkons NR, Sheth R, Ackerman D, Chen J, Saleh K, Hunt SJ, Nadolski GJ, Shi J, Gade TP. The implications of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing for IR. J Vasc Interv Radiol 29(9):1264-1267.e1, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30146193.
52. Calandri M, Yamashita S, Gazzera C, Fonio P, Veltri A, Bustreo S, Sheth RA, Yevich SM, Vauthey JN, Odisio BC. Ablation of colorectal liver metastasis: Interaction of ablation margins and RAS mutation profiling on local tumour progression-free survival. Eur Radiol 28(7):2727-2734, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29417253.
53. Oklu R, Sheth RA, Albadawi H, Bhan I, Sarioglu AF, Choz M, Zeinali M, Deshpande V, Maheswaran S, Haber DA, Stott SL, Zhu AX, Goyal L, Toner M, Ting DT. Relationship between hepatocellular carcinoma circulating tumor cells and tumor volume. Cancer Convergence 2(2), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
54. Sheth RA, Perkons N, Dondossola E, Subudhi SK, Gade TP, Tam AL. Patient-derived xenograft tumor models: Overview and relevance to IR. J Vasc Interv Radiol 29(6):880-882.e1, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29798759.
55. Yevich S, Sheth RA, Ojeshina O, Tam A. Interventional radiology techniques for the management of painful bone metastases. Journal of Radiology Nursing 37(2):90-97, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
56. Sheth RA, Sabir SH, Parmet P, Amin R, Kuban JD, Huang SY, Mahvash A, Fogelman D, Javle M, Wallace MJ. Portomesenteric venous stenting for palliation of ascites and variceal bleeding caused by prehepatic portal hypertension. Oncologist 23(6):712-718, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29284759.
57. Niekamp A, Abdel-Wahab R, Kuban J, Odisio BC, Mahvash A, Hassan MM, Qayyum A, Kaseb A, Sheth RA. Baseline apparent diffusion coefficient as a predictor of response to liver-directed therapies in hepatocellular carcinoma. J Clin Med 7(4):83, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29661994.
58. Li X, Moosavi-Basri SM, Sheth R, Wang X, Zhang YS. Bioengineered in vitro vascular models for applications in interventional radiology. Curr Pharm Des 24(45):5367-5374, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30734672.
59. Yamashita S, Sheth RA, Niekamp AS, Aloia TA, Chun YS, Lee JE, Vauthey JN, Conrad C. Comprehensive complication index predicts cancer-specific survival after resection of colorectal metastases independent of RAS mutational status. Ann Surg 266(6):1045-1054, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 27735824.
60. Conrad C, Vauthey JN, Masayuki O, Sheth RA, Yamashita S, Passot G, Bailey CE, Zorzi D, Kopetz S, Aloia TA, You YN. Individualized treatment sequencing selection contributes to optimized survival in patients with rectal cancer and synchronous liver metastases. Ann Surg Oncol 24(13):3857-3864, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28929463.
61. Oklu R, Sheth RA, Wong KHK, Jahromi AH, Albadawi H. Neutrophil extracellular traps are increased in cancer patients but does not associate with venous thrombosis. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 7(Suppl 3):S140-S149, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29399517.
62. Kis B, El-Haddad G, Sheth RA, Parikh NS, Ganguli S, Shyn PB, Choi J, Brown KT. Liver-directed therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Cancer Control 24(3):1073274817729244, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28975829.
63. Prabhakar AM, Misono AS, Sheth RA, Rosenkrantz AB, Hemingway J, Hughes DR, Duszak R. Changing Medicare utilization of minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency. J Vasc Interv Radiol 28(6):818-824, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28396193.
64. Mizuno T, Sheth R, Yamamoto M, Kang HS, Yamashita S, Aloia TA, Chun YS, Lee JE, Vauthey JN, Conrad C. Laparoscopic glissonean pedicle transection (takasaki) for negative fluorescent counterstaining of segment 6. Ann Surg Oncol 24(4):1046-1047, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 27995453.
65. Gunn AJ, Sheth RA, Luber B, Huynh MH, Rachamreddy NR, Kalva SP. Predicting outcomes after chemo-embolization in patients with advanced-stage hepatocellular carcinoma: an evaluation of different radiologic response criteria. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 40(1):61-68, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 27834009.
66. Sheth RA, Feldman AS, Paul E, Thiele EA, Walker TG. Sporadic versus tuberous sclerosis complex-associated angiomyolipomas: Predictors for long-term outcomes following transcatheter embolization. J Vasc Interv Radiol 27(10):1542-9, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27522275.
67. Sheth RA, Feldman AS, Paul E, Thiele EA, Walker TG. Angiographic and volumetric effects of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors on angiomyolipomas in tuberous sclerosis. World J Radiol 8(1949-8470 online):308-315, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27027863.
68. Sheth RA, Koottappillil B, Kambadakone A, Ganguli S, Thabet A, Mueller PR. A quality improvement initiative to reduce catheter exchange rates for fluoroscopically guided gastrostomy tubes. J Vasc Interv Radiol 27(2):251-9, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26656959.
69. Sheth RA, Heidari P, Woods K, Chung D, Chan AT, Mahmood U. Pilot clinical trial of indocyanine green fluorescence-augmented colonoscopy in high risk patients. Gastroenterol Res Pract 2016:6184842, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26989406.
70. Sheth RA, Patel MS, Koottappillil B, Shah JA, Oklu R, Mueller P, Vagefi PA, Ganguli S. Role of locoregional therapy and predictors for dropout in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma listed for liver transplantation. J Vasc Interv Radiol 26(12):1761-1768; quiz 1768, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26419427.
71. Goyal L, Govindan A, Sheth RA, Nardi V, Blaszkowsky LS, Faris JE, Clark JW, Ryan DP, Kwak EL, Allen JN, Murphy JE, Saha SK, Hong TS, Wo JY, Ferrone CR, Tanabe KK, Chong DQ, Deshpande V, Borger DR, Iafrate AJ, Bardeesy N, Zheng H, Zhu AX. Prognosis and clinicopathologic features of patients with advanced stage isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutant and IDH wild-type intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Oncologist 20(9):1019-1027, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26245674.
72. Kattapuram TM, Sheth RA, Ganguli S, Mueller PR, Walker TG. Interventional radiology symposium for medical students: Raising awareness, understanding, and interest. Journal of the American College of Radiology 03(046):968-971, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
73. Brinegar KN, Sheth RA, Khademhosseini A, Bautista J, Oklu R. Iliac vein compression syndrome: Clinical, imaging, and pathologic findings. World J Radiol 7:375-381, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
74. Sheth RA, Feldman AS, Walker TG. Renoduodenal fistula after transcatheter embolization of renal angiomyolipoma. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 38(1):232-235, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
75. Sheth RA, Walker TG, Saad WE, Dariushnia SR, Ganguli S, Hogan MJ, Hohenwalter EJ, Kalva SP, Rajan DK, Stokes LS, Zuckerman DA, Nikolic B. Quality improvement guidelines for vascular access and closure device use. J Vasc Interv Radiol 25(1):73-84, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
76. Sheth RA, Arellano RS, Uppot RN, Samir A, Goyal L, Zhu AX, Gervais D, Mahmood U. Prospective clinical trial of optical molecular imaging for percutaneous interventions on focal hepatic lesions. Radiology 274(3):917-926, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
77. Sheth RA, Heidari P, Esfahani SA, Wood BJ, Mahmood U. Interventional optical molecular imaging guidance during percutaneous biopsies. Radiology 271(3):770-777, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
78. Sheth RA, Hesketh R, Kong DS, Wicky S, Oklu R. Barriers to drug delivery in interventional oncology. J Vasc Interv Radiol 24(8):1201-1207, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
79. Sheth RA, Hesketh R, Delpolvi AR, Oklu R. Circulating tumor cells: Personalized medicine in interventional oncology?. J Vasc Interv Radiol 24(2):221-228, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
80. Cho H, Alcantara D, Yuan H, Sheth RA, Chen HH, Huang P, Andersson SB, Sosnovik DE. Fluorochrome-functionalized nanoparticles for imaging DNA in biological systems. ACS Nano 7(3):2032-2041, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
81. Sheth RA, Kunin A, Stangenberg L, Sinnamon M, Hung K, Kucherlapati R, Mahmood U. In vivo optical molecular imaging of matrix metalloproteinase activity following celecoxib therapy for colorectal cancer. Molecular Imaging 11(5):417-425, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
82. Sheth RA, Maricevich M, Mahmood U. In vivo optical molecular imaging of matrix metalloproteinase activity in abdominal aortic aneurysms correlates with treatment effects on growth rate. Atherosclerosis 212(1):181-187, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
83. Sheth RA, Mahmood U. Optical molecular imaging and its emerging role in colorectal cancer. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 299:G807-G820, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20595618.
84. Sheth RA, Upadhyay R, Stangenberg L, Sheth R, Weissleder R, Mahmood U. Improved detection of ovarian cancer metastases by intraoperative quantitative fluorescence protease imaging in a pre-clinical model. Gynecologic Oncology 112(6):616-622, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
85. Sheth RA, Josephson L, Mahmood U. Evaluation of clinically relevant applications of a fluorescent imaging analog to fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). Journal of Biomedical Optics 14(6):064014, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
86. Sheth RA, Tam J, Maricevich M, Josephson L, Weissleder R, Mahmood U. Quantitative endovascular fluorescence-based molecular imaging through blood of arterial wall inflammation. Radiology 251(3):813-821, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
87. Upadhyay R, Sheth RA, Weissleder R, Mahmood U. Quantitative real-time catheter-based fluorescence molecular imaging. Radiology 245:523-531, 2007. e-Pub 2007.
88. Sheth RA, Upadhyay R, Weissleder R, Mahmood U. Real-time multichannel imaging framework for endoscopy, catheters, and fixed geometry intraoperative systems. Molecular Imaging 6(3):147-155, 2007. e-Pub 2007.
89. Appelbaum I, Sheth RA, Shalish I, Russell KJ, Narayanamurti V. Experimental test of the planar tunneling model for ballistic electron emission spectroscopy. Physical Review B 67:155307, 2003. e-Pub 2003.
90. Martinez RE II, Appelbaum I, Reddy CV, Sheth RA, Russell KJ, Narayanamurti V. Electron transport through strongly coupled AllnP/FalnP superlattices. Applied Physics Letters 81:3576-3578, 2002. e-Pub 2002.

Invited Articles

1. Niekamp A, Sheth RA, Kuban J, Avritscher R, Ganguli S. Palliative embolization for refractory bleeding. Semin Intervent Radiol 34(4):387-397, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29249863.
2. Hu D, Huang S, Sheth RA. Gastric and enteral access for feeding in critically ill patients. Current Trauma Reports 3(3):190-195, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
3. Sheth RA, Freed R, Tavri S, Huynh TT, Irani Z. Non-maturing fistulae: epidemiology, possible interventions and outcomes. Tech Vasc Interv Radiol 20(1):31-37, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28279407.
4. Sheth RA, Sheth AU. A primer on hemodialysis from an interventional radiology perspective. Tech Vasc Interv Radiol 20(1):9-13, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28279413.
5. Sheth RA, Ganguli S. Closure of alternative vascular sites, including axillary, brachial, popliteal, and surgical grafts. Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology 18(2):113-121, 2015. e-Pub 2015.

Manuals, Teaching Aids, Other Teaching Publications

1. Sheth RA. e-Anatomy QEVLAR/RadCore project. IMAIOS, 2012.

Other Articles

1. Patel SP, Sheth RA, Davis C, Medina T Combination immunotherapy with nivolumab plus ipilimumab in melanoma of unknown primary. J Clin Oncol 43(8):907-911, 2025. PMID: 39913893.
2. Nelson, BE, Naing, A, Fu, S, Sheth, RA, Murthy, R, Piha-Paul, SA Potentiating intratumoral therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors: shifting the paradigm of multimodality therapeutics. Immuno-Oncology and Technology 25(March 2025):101040, 2025. PMID: 39981134.
3. Khavandi MM, Nezami N, Huang SY, Tam AL, Odisio BC, Mahvash A, Abdelsalam ME, Kuban JD, Sheth RA, Habibollahi P Optimizing care and maintenance of enteric tubes: Insights into percutaneous radiologically placed gastrointestinal luminal tubes. Semin Intervent Radiol, 2025.
4. Pal K, Sheth RA, Patel MN Keeping it "straight": How to do spinal tumor ablation with vertebral augmentation. Tech Vasc Interv Radiol 27(3):100988, 2024. PMID: 39490368.
5. Sheth RA, Wehrenberg-Klee E, Patel SP, Brock KK, Fotiadis N, Baère TD Intratumoral injection of immunotherapeutics: State of the art and future directions. Radiology 312(1):e232654, 2024. PMID: 39078294.
6. Keum H, Cevik E, Kim J, Demirlenk YM, Atar D, Saini G, Sheth RA, Deipolyi AR, Oklu R Tissue ablation: Applications and perspectives. Adv Mater 36(32):e2310856, 2024. PMID: 38771628.
7. Mandal SK, Yadav P, Sheth RA The neuroimmune axis and its therapeutic potential for primary liver cancer. Int J Mol Sci 25(11):6237, 2024. PMID: 38892423.
8. Yevich S, Cardenas N, Sheth R, Kuban J, Patel M, Shah K, Pal K, Chen SR, Tam A Endovascular interventions in cancer patients with compromise of the mediastinal vasculature: a review. Mediastinum 8:45, 2024. PMID: 39781200.
9. Msaouel P, Sheth RA Locoregional therapies in immunologically "cold" tumors: Opportunities and clinical trial design considerations. J Vasc Interv Radiol 35(2):198-202, 2024. PMID: 38272640.
10. Brown DB, Sheth RA Introduction to the JVIR special issue focusing on interventional radiology and immuno-oncology. J Vasc Interv Radiol 35(2):163, 2024. PMID: 38272635.
11. Brock KK, Chen SR, Sheth RA, Siewerdsen JH Imaging in Interventional Radiology: 2043 and beyond. Radiology 308(1):e230146, 2023. PMID: 37462500.
12. Brito-Orama S, Sheth RA The contemporary landscape and future directions of intratumoral immunotherapy. J Immunother Precis Oncol 6(2):84-90, 2023. PMID: 37214205.
13. Khan FM, Nezami N, Stumpf F, Smith TA, Revizin M, Fang A, Loya MF, Sheth RA, Yevich S, Habibollahi P Minimally invasive image-guided procedures for benign liver lesions. Dig Dis Interv 7(3):202-222, 2023.
14. Jain S, Sheth RA Modulating the tumor immune microenvironment with locoregional image-guided interventions. Front Immunol 13:1057597, 2023. PMID: 36685505.
15. Pal K, Sheth RA Engineering the tumor immune microenvironment through minimally invasive interventions. Cancers (Basel) 15(1):196, 2022. PMID: 36612192.
16. Madoff DC, Abi-Jaoudeh N, Braxton D, Goyal L, Jain D, Odisio BC, Salem R, Schattner M, Sheth RA, Li D An expert, multidisciplinary perspective on best practices in biomarker testing in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Oncologist 27(10):884-891, 2022. PMID: 35925597.
17. Adnan A, Sheth RA, Tam A Oligometastatic disease in the liver: The role of interventional oncology. Br J Radiol 95(1138):20211350, 2022. PMID: 35230141.
18. Som A, Rosenboom JG, Chandler, A Sheth RA, Wehrenberg-Klee E Image-guided intratumoral immunotherapy: Developing a clinically practical technology. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 189(October 2022):114505, 2022. PMID: 36007674.
19. Garg T, Weiss CR, Sheth RA Techniques for profiling the cellular immune response and their implications for interventional oncology. Cancers (Basel) 14(15):3628, 2022. PMID: 35892890.
20. Hosseini Shabanan S, Nezami N, Abdelsalam ME, Sheth RA, Odisio BC, Mahvash A, Habibollahi P Selective internal radiation therapy with yttrium-90 for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: A systematic review on post-treatment dosimetry and concomitant chemotherapy. Curr Oncol 29(6):3825-3848, 2022. PMID: 35735415.
21. Léon D, Rao S, Huang S, Sheth R, Yevich S, Ahrar K, Huynh T, Pisimisis G, Kuban JD Literature review of percutaneous stenting for palliative treatment of malignant superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS). Acad Radiol 29(Suppl 4):S110-S120, 2022. PMID: 34602363.
22. Taiji R, Lin EY, Lin YM, Yevich S, Avritscher R, Sheth RA, Ruiz JR, Jones AK, Chintalapani G, Nishiofuku H, Tanaka T, Kichikawa K, Gupta S, Odisio BC Combined angio-CT systems: A roadmap tool for precision therapy in interventional oncology. Radiol Imaging Cancer 3(5):e210039, 2021. PMID: 34559007.
23. Roberts R, Sheth RA Hepatic trauma. Ann Transl Med 9(14):1195, 2021. PMID: 34430636.
24. Tselikas L, Champiat S, Sheth RA, Yevich S, Ammari S, Deschamps F, Farhane S, Roux C, Susini S, Mouraud S, Delpla A, Raoult T, Robert C, Massard C, Barlesi F, Soria JC, Marabelle A, de Baere T Interventional radiology for local immunotherapy in oncology. Clin Cancer Res 27(10):2698-2705, 2021. PMID: 33419781.
25. Adnan A, Muñoz NM, Prakash P, Habibollahi P, Cressman ENK, Sheth RA Hyperthermia and tumor immunity. Cancers (Basel) 13(11):2507, 2021. PMID: 34063752.
26. Qiao Y, Sheth RA, Tam A Image-guided intratumoral delivery of immunotherapeutics in gastrointestinal malignancies. Dig Dis Interv 5(1):022-031, 2021.
27. Sheth RA Intratumoral and oncoviral immunotherapy. Dig Dis Interv 5(01):050-054, 2021.
28. Habibollahi P, Sheth RA, Cressman ENK Histological correlation for radiofrequency and microwave ablation in the local control of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) before liver transplantation: A comprehensive review. Cancers (Basel) 13(1):104, 2020. PMID: 33396289.
29. Hu J, Albadawi H, Chong BW, Deipolyi AR, Sheth RA, Khademhosseini A, Oklu R Advances in biomaterials and technologies for vascular embolization. Adv Mater 31(33):e1901071, 2019. PMID: 31168915.
30. Saini A, Wallace A, Alzubaidi S, Knuttinen MG, Naidu S, Sheth R, Albadawi H, Oklu R History and evolution of yttrium-90 radioembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma. J Clin Med 8(1), 2019. PMID: 30621040.
31. Saini A, Breen I, Alzubaidi S, Pershad Y, Sheth R, Naidu S, Knuttinen MG, Albadawi H, Oklu R Irreversible electroporation in liver cancers and whole organ engineering. J Clin Med 8(1), 2018. PMID: 30585195.
32. Saini A, Breen I, Pershad Y, Naidu S, Knuttinen MG, Alzubaidi S, Sheth R, Albadawi H, Kuo M, Oklu R Radiogenomics and radiomics in liver cancers. Diagnostics (Basel) 9(1), 2018. PMID: 30591628.
33. Yevich S, Odisio BC, Sheth R, Tselikas L, de Baère T, Deschamps F Integrated CT-fluoroscopy equipment: Improving the interventional radiology approach and patient experience for treatment of musculoskeletal malignancies. Semin Intervent Radiol 35(4):229-237, 2018. PMID: 30402005.
34. Ahrar K, Sabir SH, Yevich SM, Sheth RA, Ahrar JU, Tam AL, Stafford JR MRI-guided interventions in musculoskeletal system. Top Magn Reson Imaging 27(3):129-139, 2018. PMID: 29870465.
35. Hu DK, Pisimisis GT, Sheth RA Repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: Preoperative imaging and evaluation. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 8(Suppl 1):S157-S167, 2018. PMID: 29850427.
36. Partovi S, Trischman T, Sheth RA, Huynh TTT, Davidson JC, Prabhakar AM, Ganguli S Imaging work-up and endovascular treatment options for aorto-enteric fistula. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 8(Suppl 1):S200-S207, 2018. PMID: 29850432.
37. Sheth RA, Niekamp A, Quencer KB, Shamoun F, Knuttinen MG, Naidu S, Oklu R Thrombosis in cancer patients: Etiology, incidence, and management. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 7(Suppl 3):S178-S185, 2017. PMID: 29399521.
38. Quencer KB, Friedman T, Sheth R, Oklu R Tumor thrombus: Incidence, imaging, prognosis and treatment. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 7(Suppl 3):S165-S177, 2017. PMID: 29399520.
39. Sheth RA, Sabir S, Krishnamurthy S, Avery RK, Zhang YS, Khademhosseini A, Oklu R Endovascular embolization by transcatheter delivery of particles: Past, present, and future. J Funct Biomater 8(2):12, 2017. PMID: 28368345.
40. Behravesh S, Hoang P, Nanda A, Wallace A, Sheth RA, Deipolyi AR, Memic A, Naidu S, Oklu R Pathogenesis of thromboembolism and endovascular management. Thrombosis 2017:3039713, 2017. PMID: 28154761.
41. Sheth RA, Balesh ER, Zhang YS, Hirsch JA, Khademhosseini A, Oklu R Three-dimensional printing: An enabling technology for IR. J Vasc Interv Radiol 27(6):859-865, 2016. PMID: 27117948.
42. Mehta A, Oklu R, Sheth RA Thermal ablative therapies and immune checkpoint modulation: Can locoregional approaches effect a systemic response?. Gastroenterol Res Pract 2016:1-11, 2016. PMID: 27051417.

Editorials

1. Pal K, Weiss CR, Gade TPF, Glasgow E, Gill K, Palacios V, Doshi P, Oklu R, Woodrum D, Sheth RA. The academic impact of Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Grants: Report from the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation/National Institutes of Health Task Force. J Vasc Interv Radiol, 2024. PMID: 39505236.
2. Garg T, Weiss CR, Gade TPF, Glasgow E, Palacios V, Doshi P, Oklu R, Sheth RA. Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation funding to National Institutes of Health funding: Report from the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation/ National Institutes of Health (SIRF/ NIH) Task Force. J Vasc Interv Radiol 34(3):485-490, 2023. PMID: 36400118.
3. Sheth RA. A commentary on: Comparative analysis of catheter-directed thrombolysis with anticoagulation alone or systemic tPA in acute pulmonary embolism with cor pulmonale. J Intensive Care Med, 2022.
4. Sheth RA. Risk factors for percutaneous radiological gastrostomy complications. Interventional News, 2016.

Abstracts

1. Patel ZS, Carter BW, Balmes G, Rider H, Joseph J, Zobniw C, Trinh V, Anderson J, Sheth RA, Murthy R, Wachter EA. A phase I study of percutaneous oncolytic rose bengal disodium for metastatic uveal melanoma patients with hepatic metastases: A single-center cohort summary. Annals of Oncology 30:xi45, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
2. Campbell MT, Martin S, Tam AL, Sheth RA, Singh S, Ahrar K, Slack Tidwell B, Rao P, Karam JA, Wood CG, Tannir NM, Jonasch E, Gao J, Shah AY, Blando JM, Duan F, Basu S, Allison J, Sharma P, Singh S. A pilot study of tremelimumab (treme) with or without cryoablation (cryo) in patients (pts) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Annals of Oncology 30(5):v389-v390, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
3. Hinchcliff E, Peng W, Bayer V, Haymaker CL, Huang SY, Sheth RA, Westin SN, Lu KH, Hwu P, Jazaeri AA. Phase 1b clinical investigation of intraperitoneal ipilimumab and nivolumab in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis due to gynecologic malignancy. Journal of Clinical Oncology 37(15S):TPS5606-TPS5606, 2019. e-Pub 2019.

Book Chapters

1. Ramasamy, SK, Sheth, RA. Statistical software (chapter 75). In: Translational Interventional Radiology. Academic Press, 367-372, 2023.
2. Roberts R, Siddiqui BA, Subudhi SK, Sheth RA. Image-Guided Biopsy/Liquid Biopsy. In: Image-Guided Interventions in Oncology. Springer, Cham, 299–318, 2020.
3. Gee MS, Sheth RA, Haidar S, Lee EY. Abdominal wall, mesentery, peritoneum, and vessels. In: Kirk's Practical Pediatric Imaging. Fourth. Lippincott, 2017.
4. Cardenas N, Sheth RA, Kuban J. Minimally invasive treatments for liver cancer. In: Liver Cancer. Intech, 2016.
5. Sheth RA, Gee MS, Gervais D. The imaging of pediatric gastrointestinal disease. In: Walker's Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease. Sixth. People's Medical Publishing House, 2014.
6. Sheth RA, Bittencourt LK, Guimaraes A. Diffusion weighted imaging of the male pelvis. In: MRI of the Male Pelvis. Elsevier, 2014.
7. Sheth RA, Walker TG. Cystic adventitial disease. In: Diagnostic Imaging: Cardiovascular. Second. ASIN, 2013.
8. Sheth RA, Gee MS. The imaging of inflammatory bowel disease: Current concepts and future directions. In: Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Intech, 2012.
9. Sheth RA, Gee MS. The role of imaging in inflammatory bowel disease evaluation. In: Inflammatory Bowel Disease. InTech, 2012.

Letters to the Editor

1. Kwok N, Irani, Sheth RA, Arellano RS. Hepatopulmonary shunt reduction with bland embolization for yttrium-90 radioembolization. Diagn Interv Imaging, 2015.