Moyaert, Julie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3383-5421
Uwents, Marie-Hélène
Van de Heyning, Paul
Gilles, Annick
Vanderveken, Olivier
Lammers, Marc J.W.
Mertens, Griet
Pérez-Fornos, Angelica
Guinand, Nils
van de Berg, Raymond
Brijs, Tom
Ross, Veerle
Van Rompaey, Vincent
Article History
Received: 7 October 2025
Accepted: 30 December 2025
First Online: 1 February 2026
Declarations
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: The study was designed and conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki (1996) and the study protocol was reviewed and approved by the local ethics committees of the Antwerp University Hospital (B300202042807) and UZ Leuven.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Participants signed informed consent regarding publishing their data.
: Unrestricted research grant from MED-EL. Perplexity AI was used only to enhance the language and improve the readability of this manuscript.