Arabellastraße 5,
81925 München
Prof. Peter Bonner opened the clinic in 1970. The hospital is located slightly east of Munich city center in the Westin Grand Hotel on the 19th floor. The location of the hospital allows for a view of the lakes and mountains of Germany from the windows of the rooms, and at the foot of the hotel there is a large park.
About the clinic
The clinic provides medical services to a large number of patients every year. Specialists of the Arabella Clinic help patients with problems in the field of maxillofacial and plastic surgery. The hospital also has departments that help patients with eye diseases, various diseases of the ears, nose and throat. There is also a department for hernia treatment.
The Arabella Private Clinic performs facial, breast and abdominal surgery. In addition, the clinic provides painless elimination of wrinkles and folds.
Department of Ophthalmology
The Ophthalmology Department of the Arabella Clinic offers a wide range of treatment methods. The department has high-level equipment, meets the standards of international organizations and treats diseases of the eye, eye muscles, and tear ducts. The clinic provides various transplantation methods for eye diseases, as well as treatment of strabismus. The Arabella Clinic has all modern necessary diagnostic and treatment equipment for microsurgical treatment methods and laser surgery. At the same time, the treatment is carried out both on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Before treatment, a complete ophthalmologic examination is carried out, which includes checking stereoscopic vision and visual acuity. The head of the department is Richard Wertheimer, MD, and the senior doctor of the department is Professor Hans von Denffer, MD.
Department of Surgery
The Arabella Clinic has a team of highly qualified specialists. At the head of the team and the clinic is Prof. Matthias Schroeder, MD. He is a specialist in spine surgery. The Arabella Clinic provides all possible methods of conservative therapy, including psychological counseling, acupuncture, and rehabilitation medicine. If these methods do not help, then the consilium of doctors decides to carry out surgical treatment methods, and specialists try to use minimally invasive methods. The clinic treats intervertebral hernias with microsurgical methods, heat therapy, endoscopic methods, stabilizing methods and others.
The surgical department is also staffed by other top-notch specialists:
- Richard Merkle, M.D. He has been practicing abdominal surgery for many years. His main areas of specialization are the treatment of obesity by balloon placement, correction of reflux disease. He also performs endoscopic cholecystectomy and treatment of gastric ulcers. He develops such areas as colorectal surgery, treatment of endometriosis.
- Physician Michael Kramer has been an associate of Dr. Merkel since 2005. He also specializes in the treatment of obesity and colorectal surgery. In addition, he is working in-depth on the treatment of endometriosis in collaboration with the director of the Endometriosis Center in Munich, Dr. Theiss.
- Professor Michael Skynberg, M.D., is also a member of the surgical team. He is also the Chief Medical Director of the Red Cross Clinic. His area of practice and research interest is gastric, pancreatic and endocrine surgery.
- Dr. Dietrich Eckhart Leder has been working alongside Dr. Kramer and Dr. Merkel since 2015. The doctor is a widely-known specialist in colorectal surgery, proctology and surgical treatment of incontinence.
- The team includes Dr. Eva Filitsitas Gibler, who is highly skilled in the surgical treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities.
- Prof. Dr. László Kovács, MD, is a renowned specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery throughout Germany. The doctor’s area of practical and scientific interest lies in the elimination of any defects. Thanks to Dr. Kovacs, the CAPS research group was established, which was the first in the world to introduce the method of three-dimensional visualization of human body shapes for reconstructive plastic surgery.
In addition, the Arabella Clinic is famous for its hernia department for the treatment of hernias of all types and complexity. Surgical methods of hernia treatment are constantly improving, often the result depends on the material used during surgery. Arbella Clinic uses only modern surgical materials, and specialists apply techniques that have proven to be effective and the best. Doctors are constantly undergoing various training courses, where they learn modern methods of treatment and acquire the skill to implement them in practice.
ENT department
The head of the ENT Department is Prof. Dr. Reinhardt J. Kau, MD, and the senior physician is Prof. Dr. Stefan Holtmann, MD. The work of the ENT department covers an extensive list of pathologies of the ENT organs. All surgical treatments are aimed at minimizing the aggressiveness of surgical methods of treatment, only mini-invasive accesses are used. The department is equipped with high-class technology that facilitates visualization of the surgical field and ensures maximum safety. Interventions of different levels are performed in the ENT department. Specialists remove tumors of various types of salivary glands, in the larynx and oral cavity, treat chronic diseases, as well as plastic and cosmetic reconstructive surgery of the face. The ENT department of the Arabella Clinic has at its disposal a modern method of surgery — «light scalpel», thanks to which operations in the area of the nasal septum are performed,