Kara Ashley Yeung
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Focus
- Emergency Medicine
Professional Education
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Fellowship: UC San Diego Medical Toxicology Fellowship (2025) CA
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Board Certification: American Board of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine (2024)
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Residency: Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Mass General Brigham (2023) MA
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Medical Education: Harvard Medical School (2019) MA
All Publications
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Encephalopathy following subcutaneous administration of Brixadi® extended-release buprenorphine.
Toxicology reports
2026; 17: 102320
Abstract
Long-acting injectable buprenorphine is one option for the management of opioid use disorder. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved two brands for monthly injection, Sublocade ® (Indivior, North Chesterfield, VA, USA) and Brixadi® (Braeburn, Plymouth Meeting, PA, USA). We report the development of encephalopathy following administration of Brixadi®. Consent was obtained from the patient. A 62-year-old patient with a history of current methamphetamine and prior fentanyl abuse, chronic pain due to lumbar radiculopathy presented to the emergency department with three days of altered mental status. She received subcutaneous Brixadi® 128 mg monthly formulation three days prior at an outpatient addiction medicine clinic, reportedly to treat simultaneously presumptive incidental opioid dependence from contaminated methamphetamine use due to serial positive urine fentanyl testing over the prior three visits, most recently 3 months prior, and chronic low back pain. Urine fentanyl testing on the date of presentation was negative. She developed persistent altered mentation and somnolence starting two hours after injection.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.toxrep.2026.102320
View details for PubMedID 42571226
View details for PubMedCentralID PMC13451788
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Left bundle branch block morphology on electrocardiogram after massive diphenhydramine overdose
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. 2024: 91
View details for Web of Science ID 001424708600176
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In-field yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) volatile composition under elevated temperature and CO2 and implications for future control
CHEMOECOLOGY
2015; 25 (6): 313-323
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00049-015-0200-y
View details for Web of Science ID 000362882500004