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Electrode impedance and neural response telemetry (NRT) thresholds can be measured to confirm correct electrode placement and speech processor programming. Background\/Objectives: The aim of the study is to evaluate the hearing outcome of children with profound sensorineural hearing loss or deafness due to cCMV infection after CI compared to a control group of children born with other causes of congenital hearing loss and to identify prognostic factors predicting the outcome of patients with hearing loss due to cCMV infection after CI. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in patients implanted between 2016 and 2023 at the Department of Otolaryngology of the Institute of the Polish Mother\u2019s Memorial Hospital Research Institute in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. Pre- and postoperative hearing levels, electrode impedance and neural response telemetry (NRT) thresholds were compared. The degree of pre-implantation hearing loss was assessed by the level of the recorded V-wave in the ABR test. Post-implantation hearing assessment was based on the last available free-field tonal audiometry measurement. Impedance measurements were included: intraoperative, 1, 6, 12 months after CI, respectively, and NRT thresholds. Results: The final analysis included 84 patients with profound sensorineural hearing loss and complete audiological follow-up data: 13 patients with congenital CMV (cCMV) infection and 71 patients with other causes of deafnes. The analysis included 175 implanted ears: 17 in the CMV group and 158 in the control group. The age at implantation ranged from 1 to 11 years in the CMV and from 1 to 13 years in the control group. Mean preoperative hearing thresholds were 94.54 dB in the CMV group and 97.04 dB in the control group. At the most recent postoperative evaluation, mean thresholds improved to 33.83 dB and 36.42 dB, respectively. No statistically significant differences were observed between the groups. Mean intraoperative NRT values were 79.74 in the CMV group and 86.90 in the non-CMV group. Final NRT values were 129.77 and 130.76, respectively. Mean impedance values measured intraoperatively and at 1, 6 and 12 months postoperatively were 11.09 kOhm, 13.40 kOhm, 8.35 kOhm and 8.25 kOhm in the CMV group; and 12.28 kOhm, 14.06 kOhm, 9.60 kOhm and 8.00 kOhm in the control group, respectively. Conclusions: CI in children with deafness caused by cCMV infection is an effective treatment option. Initial electrical impedance values of the electrodes increase after implant activation and decrease in subsequent months of follow-up, suggesting the absence of active adhesion processes in the cochlea.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm14082575","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,9]],"date-time":"2025-04-09T05:03:07Z","timestamp":1744174987000},"page":"2575","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Retrospective Analysis of Hearing Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation in Patients with Deafness Due to Congenital CMV Infection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0046-7391","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Natalia","family":"Zajdel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, Polish Mother\u2019s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, 93-338 Lodz, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5326-4777","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oskar","family":"Rosiak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, Polish Mother\u2019s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, 93-338 Lodz, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6669-9876","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nikodem","family":"Pietrzak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, Polish Mother\u2019s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, 93-338 Lodz, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maciej","family":"Skalski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, Polish Mother\u2019s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, 93-338 Lodz, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6202-7506","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wies\u0142aw","family":"Konopka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, Polish Mother\u2019s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, 93-338 Lodz, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"16094","DOI":"10.1038\/nrdp.2016.94","article-title":"Congenital Hearing Loss","volume":"3","author":"Korver","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nat. 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