After a serious heart valve disease, Gerhard D. (54) received another shock diagnosis: a brain tumor.

Doctors in Munich spared him an operation with the help of a robot. How the high-tech therapy helps. Deafness and partial facial paralysis were imminent. For Gerhard D. (54) from near Ulm, his health took a turn for the worse over the last six months. First, the married logistics manager had to go under the knife due to a heart valve disease, then a tumor also gave him a hard time. “I constantly felt a kind of increased pressure in my head, I was often dizzy and I could hear worse and worse in one ear.” The doctors diagnosed a vestibular schwannoma (also known as an acoustic neuroma), a brain tumor on the auditory and vestibular nerve. Although the tumor is benign, it can grow to such an extent that it puts pressure on the cranial nerves, among other things. Possible consequences are deafness and partial paralysis of the face (facial nerve palsy).