A 70-year-old hypertensive male’s exam shows the point of the maximal impulse to be in the mid-axillary line. A transthoracic echocardiogram shows concentric left ventricular hypertrophy with a normal right ventricle. Which of the following is the pathogenesis of this patient's ventricular hypertrophy?
Accumulation of protein fibrils
Accumulation of glycogen
Accumulation of sarcomeres in parallel
Deposition of endomyocardial collagen
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