Dongngan Truong

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 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 Kawasaki disease, or who have undergone single ventricle palliation. Her other clinical and research interests are in 2D and 3D echocardiography in surgical planning.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
    American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Cardiology)

  • 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 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 Kawasaki disease, or who have undergone single ventricle palliation. Her other clinical and research interests are in 2D and 3D echocardiography in surgical planning.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pediatrics -Primary
    Board Certification
    American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
    American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Cardiology)

    Education history

    Fellowship 2D/3D Echocardiography - Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta Fellow
    University of Utah M.S.C.I
    Fellowship Pediatric Cardiology - Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah Fellow
    Pediatrics - Connecticut Children's Medical Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - University of Connecticut School of Medicine M.D.
    Dartmouth College A.B.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Dongngan T Truong, Felicia L Trachtenberg, Gail D Pearson, Audrey Dionne, Matthew D Elias, Kevin Friedman, Kerri H Hayes, Lynn Mahony, Brian W McCrindle, Matthew E Oster, Victoria Pemberton, Andrew J Powell, Mark W Russell, Lara S Shekerdemian, Mary Beth Son, Michael Taylor, Jane W Newburger (2021). The NHLBI Study on Long-terM OUtcomes after the Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (MUSIC): Design and Objectives: Design and Rationale of the MUSIC Study. Am Heart J.
    2. Moza R, Truong DT, Lambert LM, Ou Z, Amula V, Eckhauser A, Minich LL, Williams RV (2021). Poor Weight Recovery Between Stage 1 Palliation and Hospital Discharge for Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology: An Analysis of the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative Phase II Dataset. J Pediatr, 234, 20-26.e2.
    3. Weyhrauch DL, Truong DT, Pinto NM, Amula V, Lambert LM, Zhang C, Presson AP, Wilkes J, Minich LL, Williams RV (2021). Changes in Provider Prescribing Behavior for Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology After Evidence-Based Publications. Pediatr Cardiol, 42(5), 1224-1232.
    4. Mahgerefteh J, Lai W, Colan S, Trachtenberg F, Gongwer R, Stylianou M, Bhat AH, Goldberg D, McCrindle B, Frommelt P, Sachdeva R, Shuplock JM, Spurney C, Troung D, Cnota JF, Camarda JA, Levine J, Pignatelli R, Altmann K, van der Velde M, Thankavel PP, Chowdhury S, Srivastava S, Johnson TR, Lopez L Pediatric Heart Network Investigatos (2021). Height Versus Body Surface Area to Normalize Cardiovascular Measurements in Children Using the Pediatric Heart Network Echocardiographic Z-Score Database. Pediatr Cardiol, 42(6), 1284-1292.
    5. Robinson DL, Ware AL, Sauer MC, Williams RV, Ou Z, Presson AP, Tani LY, Minich LL, Truong DT (2021). Implications of Changing Z-Score Models for Coronary Artery Dimensions in Kawasaki Disease. Pediatr Cardiol, 42(2), 432-441.
    6. McFarland CA, Truong DT, Pinto NM, Minich LL, Burch PT, Eckhauser AW, Lal AK, Molina KM, Ou Z, Presson AP, May LJ (2020). Implications of Left Ventricular Dysfunction at Presentation for Infants with Coarctation of the Aorta. Pediatr Cardiol, 42(1), 72-77.
    7. Truong D, Lopez L, Frommelt PC, Stelter J, Ni B, Cohen MS, Prakash A, Colan SD, Spurney C, Soslow J, Pearson GD, Mahgerefteh J, Sachdeva R, Pignatelli R, Trachtenberg F, Stylianou M, Altmann K, Rathge KA, Camarda J, Chowdhury S, Dragulescu A, Frommelt M, Garuba O, Soriano B, Srivastava S, Thankavel P, van der Velde ME, Minich LL, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators (2020). Challenges and lessons learned from the Pediatric Heart Network Normal Echocardiogram Database study. Cardiol Young, 30(4), 456-461.
    8. Furlong-Dillard JM, Miller BJ, Sward KA, Neary AI, Hardin-Reynolds TL, Jeffers G, Clay BA, Truong DT, Miller TA, Jones CE, Lambert LM, Bailly DK (2019). The association between feeding protocol compliance and weight gain following high-risk neonatal cardiac surgery. Cardiol Young, 29(5), 594-601.
    9. Samantha C Roberts, Sonia Jain, Adriana H Tremoulet, Katherine K Kim, Jane C Burns, KIDCARE Multicenter Study Group Vikram Anand, Marsha Anderson, Jocelyn Ang, Emily Ansusinha, Moshe Arditi, Negar Ashouri, Allison Bartlett, Archana Chatterjee, Roberta DeBiasi, Cornelia Dekker, Chandani DeZure, Lisa Didion, Samuel Dominguez, Rana El Feghaly, Guliz Erdem, Natasha Halasa, Ashraf Harahsheh, Mary Anne Jackson, Preeti Jaggi, Supriya Jain, Pei-Ni Jone, Neeru Kaushik, Gregory Kurio, Anna Lillian, David Lloyd, John Manaloor, Amy McNelis, David E Michalik, Jane Newburger, Charles Newcomer, Tiffany Perkins, Michael Portman, Jose Romero, Tova Ronis, Anne Rowley, Kathryn Schneider, Jennifer Schuster, S Kristen Sexson Tejtel, Kavita Sharma, Kari Simonsen, Jacqueline Szmuszkovicz, Dongngan Truong, James Wood, Sylvia Yeh (2019). The Kawasaki Disease Comparative Effectiveness (KIDCARE) trial: A phase III, randomized trial of second intravenous immunoglobulin versus infliximab for resistant Kawasaki disease. Contemp Clin Trials, 79, 98-103.
    10. Roberts SC, Jain S, Tremoulet AH, Kim KK, Burns JC, KIDCARE Multicenter Study Group, Anand V, Anderson M, Ang J, Ansusinha E, Arditi M, Ashouri N, Barlett A, Chatterjee A, DeBiasi R, Dekker C, DeZure C, Didion L, Dominguez S, EL Feghaly R, Erdem G, Halasa N, Harahsheh A, Jackson MA, Jaggi P, Jain S, Jone S, Jone PN, Kaushik N, Kurio G, Lillian A, Lloyd D, Manaloor J, McNelis A, Michalik DE, Newburger J, Newcomer C, Perkins T, Portman M, Romero J, Ronis T, Rowley A, Schneider K, Schuster J, Tejtel SKS, Sharma K, Simonsen K, Szmuszkovicz J, Truong D, Wood J, Yeh S (2019). The Kawasaki Disease Comparative Effectiveness (KIDCARE) trial: A phase III, randomized trial of second intravenous immunoglobulin versus infliximab for resistant Kawaskai disease. Contemp Clin Trials.
    11. Truong DT, Menon SC, Lambert LM, Burch PT, Sheng X, Minich LL, Williams RV (2018). Digoxin Use in Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology: Secondary Analysis of the Pediatric Heart Network Infant Single Ventricle Trial Public Use Dataset. Pediatr Cardiol, 39(6), 1200-1209.
    12. Colen T, Kutty S, Thompson RB, Tham E, Mackie AS, Li L, Truong DT, Maruyama M, Smallhorn JF, Khoo NS (2018). Tricuspid Valve Adaptation during the First Interstage Period in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 31(5), 624-633.
    13. Suntratonpipat S, Khoo N, Colen T, Alhabdan M, Truong DT, Zahari N, Kutty S, Smallhorn J, Tham E (7/01/2017). 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.
    14. 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.
    15. 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.
    16. 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.
    17. 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.

    Review

    1. Files MD, Erickson L, Reid K, Roten L, Leach A, Davis J, Truong D, Shirali G (September 2019). Gaps In Pediatric Cardiac Care: Opportunities to Make A Difference. [Review]. Prog Pediatr Cardiol, 54.

    Book Chapter

    1. Truong DT, Minich LL, Tani LY (2020). Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Endocarditis. In Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (3rd). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
    2. Ware AL, Truong DT, Tani LY (2018). Inflammatory Heart Disease in Children. In Sarnaik A, Ross R, Lipshultz S (Eds.), Cardiac Emergencies in Children: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management (1st).
    3. Cetta F, Truong DT, Minich LL, Maleszewski J, OLeary P, Dearani J, Brukhart H (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).
    4. 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 (1st). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

    Letter

    1. Harahsheh AS, Dahdah N, Newburger JW, Portman MA, Piram M, Tulloh R, McCrindle BW, de Ferranti SD, Cimaz R, Truong DT, Burns JC (2020). Missed or delayed diagnosis of Kawasaki disease during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. [Letter to the editor]. J Pediatr, 222, 261-262.

    Abstract

    1. McFarland C, Molina KM, May LJ, Truong D, Minich LL, Pinto N, Lal AK, Eckhauser A, Burch P (2020).  Implications of Left Ventricular Dysfunction at Presentation for Infants with Coarctation of the Aorta   [Abstract]. 42(1), 72-77.
    2. Moza R, Truong N, Lambert L, Ou Z, Amula V, Eckhauser A, Minich LL, Williams R (2020). Poor Weight Recovery Between Stage 1 Palliation and Hospital Discharge: An Analysis of the NPC-QIC Phase II Dataset. Poster presented at American College of Cardiology(ACC)/World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) Virtual 69th Annual Scientific Session & Expo [Abstract].
    3. Areinamo I, Truong DT, Minich L, Sauer M, Ou Z, Tani LY, Williams R (3/17/2019). Does Cardiology Consultation Improve Adherence to Guidelines for Diagnosis of Incomplete Kawasaki Disease? [Abstract]. 73(9), 631.
    4. Truong DT, Ou Z, Bailly DK, Burch PT, Griffiths ER, Minich LL (03/12/2019). Factors Associated with Changes in Mortality Over Time and Home Deaths in the Phase I of the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative [Abstract]. J Am Coll Cardiol, 73(9), 577.
    5. Truong DT, Menon SC, Lambert L, Burch PT, Sheng X, Minich LL, Williams, RV (2015). Association of Digoxin with Interstage Mortality and Growth: Results from the Pediatric Heart Network Infant Single Ventricle Trial Public Use Dataset, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2015, Orlando, FL [Abstract]. 5(1).
    6. Truong DT, Johnson JT, Bailly DK, Clawson JR, Witte MK, Minich LL (2014). Is the Arachidonic Acid Pathway Adequatley Inhibited in Shunted Infants on Aspirin? American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. 2014 [Abstract].
    7. Truong DT, Rutledge JM, Tham EB, 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.
    8. Truong DT, Pinto NM, Puchalski MD (2013). Prenatal Echocardiographic Indices Pedict Coarctation of the Aorta. American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, San Francisco, CA, March 2013 [Abstract]. 61(10), E510.
    9. 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.
    10. 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).

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