Asthma USMLE Step 1 Practice Question
A 57-year-old man with severe periodontal disease and alcohol use disorder has 2 weeks of fever, weight loss, pleuritic chest pain, and foul smelling sputum. Chest imaging shows a cavitary lesion with an air fluid level in the dependent portion of the right lung. Which of the following is the most likely underlying cause?
Answer choices
- APulmonary infarction after deep vein thrombosis
- BCongenital pulmonary airway malformation
- CHematogenous spread of Candida species
- DAspiration of oropharyngeal contents causing polymicrobial infectionCorrect answer
- EPrimary tuberculosis infection
- FSeptic emboli from right-sided infective endocarditis causing multiple peripheral cavitary lesions
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