Benny Hinn Admitted to California ICU for Heart-Related Issues

Popular televangelist, Benny Hinn, was in the Intensive Care Unit last weekend. The healing evangelist suffered from shortness of breath and doctors admitted him to an Orange County, California hospital for treatment after returning exhausted from a weeklong crusade in Brazil. Benny Hinn who turned 63 last December is said to be responding to treatment.

Jessica Hinn-Koulianos, Hinn's oldest daughter, said, he wasn't feeling himself after a week of ministry to crowds of over 100,000 people in Brazil. Her sister Tasha Gelyana who lives in Southern California had called her and said their father was feeling fatigued and had suffered shortness of breath after he returned from Brazil.

So she flew out to his home in California and urged him to see one of the best cardiologists in Southern California. Doctors treated him for lack of oxygen in his pulmonary system.

"He pushed his body too hard after being in Brazil. He's human, but he's upbeat and he'll be OK," says Hinn-Koulianos.

Hinn-Koulianos says her dad's heart rate was up to 200 beats per minute due to an atrial fibrillation issue. Also called AFib, the American Heart Association defines atrial fibrillation as "a quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. Some people refer to AF as a quivering heart. An estimated 2.7 million Americans are living with AF."