An 81-year-old man presented to our hospital with signs and symptoms suggestive of a left middle cerebral artery stroke. The patient had a history of stable coronary artery disease, ischemic cardiomyopathy with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 45%, well-controlled hypertension, hyperlipidemia and an abdominal aortic aneurysm for which he had undergone an endovascular aortic repair procedure with a prosthesis (SETALatecba balloon-expandable stent graft) 10 months earlier. The SETA prosthesis is balloon expandable, rather than the self-expandable prosthesis that is most commonly used. Three months after his endovascular aortic repair procedure, the patient had undergone a routine, follow-up, contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan, which showed no sign of prosthesis malposition, malfunction or endoleak. Endovascular therapies for the management of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms are increasingly performed because of their favourable early safety profile, shorter hospital stays and decreased short-term mortality, when compared with open surgical repair.