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. 2015 Jun 5;44:112–127. doi: 10.1007/s10439-015-1351-2

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Evolution of cardiac chamber and wall volumes during concentric hypertrophy in response to left (top) and right (bottom) ventricular overload as predicted by the parallel sarcomere deposition model. Chambers volume increase slightly at first, and then decrease as the walls thicken (left). Wall volumes increase drastically, but then saturate as the wall stretches return to their physiological baseline values (right).