Dongngan Truong,
MD
Languages Spoken: English
Dr. Truong received her medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, completed her Pediatrics residency at Connecticut Children´s Medical Center/University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Primary Children’s Hospital/University of Utah, and a fourth year fellowship in Echocardiography with a focus on 3-dimensional echocardiography at Stollery Children’s Hospital/University of Alberta. Dr. Truong is board-certified in Pediatrics and board eligible in Pediatric Cardiology.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Primary Children´s Hospital. She sees patients with all types of congenital and acquired heart disease, with a clinical and research interest in patients who have undergone single ventricle palliation. Her other clinical and research interest is in echocardiography, and particularly 3-dimensional echocardiography, in surgical planning.
Specialties
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Cardiology |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Cardiology) |
Dr. Truong received her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College and her M.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Truong completed postgraduate training in Pediatrics at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center/University of Connecticut School of Medicine; she completed postgraduate training in Pediatric Cardiology at Primary Children’s Hospital/University of Utah, and a fourth year fellowship in Echocardiography with a focus in 3-Dimensional Echocardiography at Stollery Children’s Hospital/University of Alberta. She joined the University of Utah Division of Pediatric Cardiology as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in August 2014.
Her research interests include echocardiography, particularly 3-dimensional echocardiography, in congenital and acquired heart disease, as well as research to improve outcomes in patients with single ventricle disease. She is also interested in thrombosis and anticoagulation in pediatric heart disease, and is the principal Investigator of an Early Career Grant from the Thrasher Foundation on a pilot study examining aspirin prophylaxis in infants following aortopulmonary shunts.
Academic Locations
Eccles Primary Children’s Outpatient Services Building
801-213-3599
Primary Children's Hospital
801-662-1000
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Cardiology |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Cardiology) |
Education History
| Graduate Training | University of Utah M.S.C.I |
| Fellowship | Stollery Children's Medical Center, University of Alberta Echocardiography Fellow |
| Fellowship | Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah Pediatric Cardiology Fellow |
| Residency | Connecticut Children's Medical Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine Pediatrics Resident |
| Professional Medical | University of Connecticut School of Medicine Medicine M.D. |
| Undergraduate | Dartmouth College A.B. |
Selected Publications - Journal Articles
Journal Article
- Suntratonpipat S, Khoo N, Colen T, Alhabdan M, Truong D, Zahari N, Kutty S, Smallhorn J, Tham E (Accepted). Impaired Single Right Ventricular Function Compared to Single Left Ventricles During the Early Stages of Palliation: A Longitudinal Study. J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 30(5), 468-477.
- Truong DT, Johnson JT, Bailly DK, Clawson JR, Sheng X, Burch PT, Witte MK, LuAnn Minich L (2017). Platelet Inhibition in Shunted Infants on Aspirin at Short and Midterm Follow-Up. Pediatr Cardiol, 38(2), 401-409.
- Truong DT, Menon SC, Lambert L, Burch PT, Sheng X, Minich LL, Williams RV (2015). “Association Between Digoxin, Mortality, and Growth in the Interstage and at 14 Months: Analysis of the Pediatric Heart Network Infant Single Ventricle Trial Public Use Dataset. Am J Cardiol.
- Kutty S, Colen T, Thompson RB, Tham E, Li L, Vijarnsorn C, Polak A, Truong DT, Danford DA, Smallhorn JF, Khoo NS (2014). Tricuspid regurgitation in hypoplastic left heart syndrome: mechanistic insights from 3-dimensional echocardiography and relationship with outcomes. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 7(5), 765-72.
- Truong DT, Tani LY, Minich LL, Burch PT, Bardsley TR, Menon SC (2014). Factors associated with recoarctation after surgical repair of coarctation of the aorta by way of thoracotomy in young infants. Pediatr Cardiol, 35(1), 164-70.
Book Chapter
- Frank Cetta, Dongngan Truong, L LuAnn Minich, Joseph Maleszewski, Patrick OLeary, Joseph Dearani, and Harold Brukhart (2016). Atrioventricular Septal Defects. In Allen H, Driscoll D, Shaddy R, and Feltes T (Eds.), Moss and Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: Including the Fetus and Young Adult (9th).
- Truong DT, Minich LL, Tani LY (2014). Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Endocardits. In Eidem B, Cetta F, O’Leary P (Eds.), Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Ware AL, Truong DT, Tani LY (In Press). Inflammatory Heart Disease in Children. In Sarnaik A, Ross R, Lipshultz S (Eds.), Cardiac Emergencise in Children: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management.
Abstract
- Truong DT, Rutledge J, Tham E, Khoo NS (2014). Predictors of Reintervention and Degree of Arch Obstruction Following Norwood Procedure Are Not Always the Same. Submitted to the American Society of Echocardiography Conference 2014 [Abstract]. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.
- Truong DT, Pinto NM, Puchalski MD (2013). Prenatal Echocardiographic Indices Predict Coarctation of the Aorta. Poster presented at the American College of Cardiology Conference, San Francisco, IL [Abstract]. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
- Truong DT, Bardsley TR, Tani LY, Minich LL, Burch PT, Menon SC (2012). Should Transverse Arch Size Determine Surgical Approach in Young Infants with Coarctation? Poster presented at the American Society of Echocardiography Conference, National Harbor, MD, 2012 [Abstract].
- Truong DT, Tani LY, Burch PT, Bardsley TR, Menon SC (March 2012). Predictors of Recurrent Coarctation Following Surgical Repair in Children. Moderated Poster presented at the American College of Cardiology Conference 2012 in Chicago, IL [Abstract]. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 59(13).
- Truong DT, Carroll C, Kellerman K, Stoltz P, Mello D, Spinella P (2009). Acute Renal Failure in Post-Operative Cardiac Patients. Presented at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Cardiology Conference in Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2009 [Abstract].
Global Impact
Education History
| Fellowship | Stollery Children's Medical Center, University of Alberta Echocardiography Fellow |