A 71-Year-Old Woman Comes to the Physician Because of Sudden

A 71-year-old woman comes to the physician because of sudden loss of vision in her right eye for 15 minutes that morning, which subsided spontaneously. Over the past 4 months, she has had fatigue, a 4-kg (8.8-lb) weight loss, and has woken up on several occasions at night covered in sweat. She has had frequent headaches and pain in her jaw while chewing for the past 2 months. This patient's condition is most likely caused by:

A) Carotid artery atherosclerosis
B) Cardiac embolism
C) Hypoxic encephalopathy
D) Hypertensive encephalopathy
E) Large vessel arteritis
F) Hypertensive arteriolar sclerosis
G) Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
H) Arteriovenous malformation
I) Saccular aneurysm
J) Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm