A 69-year-old woman with transient visual loss, jaw claudication, markedly elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein, and the provided low- and high-power histology images—what is the most likely diagnosis: cerebral amyloid angiopathy, Churg‑Strauss syndrome, polyangiitis, giant‑cell arteritis, or primary cerebral vasculitis?

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