“…Despite K. kingae's remarkable susceptibility to antimicrobial drugs, serious complications, such as embolism or mycotic aneurism to the femoral (9,130,251), brachial (124), or ophthalmic (9) arteries, valvular insufficiency (113,242,245,247,249,250,264,269), congestive heart failure (133,249,272) or cardiogenic shock (21,130,258), pulmonary infarction (269), mitral valve rupture (244) or perforation (242,250,263), paravalvular abscess formation (249,259,265), cerebrovascular accidents (113, 168, 242, 255, 257, 261-263, 265, 266, 272, 273), meningitis (113,138,242,245), brain abscess (251), and embolic arthritis (138) and cellulitis (252), are common. Emergency cardiac surgery has been prescribed for life-threatening complications that do not respond to conservative medical treatment (9, 130, 244, 248-250, 259, 263, 267, 271, 272), many patients require late valvuloplasty (269) or valve replacement (242,247,259), and the overall mortality rate of the disease is Ͼ10% (9,18,…”