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A 29-year-old woman who injects drugs presents with fever, malaise, and a new systolic murmur at the left sternal border. Blood cultures grow methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. Transthoracic echocardiography shows vegetations on the tricuspid valve. What is the most likely complication of this condition?

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