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Received: 12 November 2024

Accepted: 23 October 2025

First Online: 7 November 2025

Declarations

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: The authors’ institution has third-party funding with Cochlear Ltd. (Sydney, Australia), MED-EL (Innsbruck, Austria) and Advanced Bionics (Stäfa, Switzerland). This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. We acknowledge the financial support of the Open Access Publication Fund of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Parts of the data presented in this manuscript were originally collected and discussed in the context of the first author’s doctoral thesis, which will be submitted to Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and made publicly available through the university’s institutional repository.

: This study was reviewed and approved by the ethical review board of the University Medicine Halle with the approval number: [2022-048] in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants provided informed consent to participate in the study and for the publication of their anonymized case details.

: During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used DeepL and Rubriq to improve the language. After using this tool, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.