This month’s most missed USMLE question--and the right answer

As you prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Exam® (USMLE®), do you know which questions to look out for? We’re giving you an exclusive scoop on the most challenging USMLE test prep questions and expert strategies to help you beat them. Find out what this month’s toughest question is and receive an expert video explanation of the answer from Kaplan Medical. Welcome to the third post in AMA Wire’s® series, “Tutor talk: Tips from Kaplan Medical on the most missed USMLE test prep questions.” Each month, we’re revealing one of the top questions students miss, a helpful analysis of answers and a video featuring tips on how to advance your test-taking strategies. This month’s question explores pathology and cardiovascular topics. Ready. Set. Go. This month’s question that stumped most students: A 72-year-old obese woman collapses and is brought to the emergency department. She flew from California to New York three days earlier. She has smoked a pack of cigarettes daily for 50 years. During physical examination, she is unable to respond to questions or follow instructions. Three days later, she becomes hypotensive and dies. Autopsy shows multiple loosely adherent clots within the distal branching arteries of the left middle cerebral artery and in the vertebrobasilar system. Which of the following pathologic conditions would most likely account for the neurologic findings in this patient? A. Atherosclerosis of penetrating cerebral arterie...
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