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Methods: We included patients (n = 100 per group) from the emergency room setting when they (i) presented with an acute neurological deficit or headache; (ii) had a discharge diagnosis of a migraine aura, a migraine without an aura, or neither (controls without stroke or epilepsy); and (iii) had a brain MRI with SWI in the acute setting. Results: In the migraine with aura group, SWI asymmetry was found in 26% (95% CI 18\u201335) compared to patients with migraine without aura (3%, [95% CI 1\u20138], p &lt; 0.001) and controls 7% [95% CI 3\u201314], p &lt; 0.001). There was no difference between patients with migraine without aura and controls (p = 0.19). 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