PHOENIX — A Phoenix man is defying the odds after surviving two cardiac arrests without the need for a heart transplant. Doctors at Banner Desert Medical Center in Phoenix are calling his survival a miracle.
Benjamin Lorenzano, who spent three months bedridden at the hospital, exited the facility last fall with the same heart he walked in with—against all expectations. After his first heart attack, doctors predicted his survival rate would be less than 20 percent if he were to undergo a heart transplant.
Instead of the transplant, Lorenzano was given stents to support blood flow to his heart, with the hope that it would help his condition. Then, it happened again while he was at the hospital recovering from the first cardiac arrest…