The VertiGO! Trial protocol: A prospective, single-center, patient-blinded study to evaluate efficacy and safety of prolonged daily stimulation with a multichannel vestibulocochlear implant prototype in bilateral vestibulopathy patients

• Bernd L. Vermorken ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bernd.vermorken@mumc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2406-8141

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• Benjamin Volpe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Stan C. J. van Boxel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Joost J. A. Stultiens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Marc van Hoof,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Rik Marcellis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4819-4863

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• Elke Loos,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Neurosciences, Research Group Experimental Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (ExpORL), KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Alexander van Soest,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Chris McCrum,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4927-1114

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• Kenneth Meijer,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8236-8754

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• Nils Guinand,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Division of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Angélica Pérez Fornos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3911-8826

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• Vincent van Rompaey,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

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• Elke Devocht,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5017-316X

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• Raymond van de Berg

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Balance Disorders, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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