1. From the editors

   Editorial Pages: 3 - 3

2. Beta blockers in heart failure

   • Norman Sharpe

   Clinical Reviews Pages: 5 - 13

3. Imaging of myocardial autonomic innervation in patients with congestive heart failure: Methods and clinical implications

   • Franz Hartmann
   • Sibylle Ziegler
   • Markus Schwaiger

   Clinical Reviews Pages: 15 - 37

4. Status of permanent cardiac replacement for end-stage congestive heart failure

   • Robert Samuel DeCosta Higgins
   • Norman Allen Silverman

   Clinical Reviews Pages: 39 - 51

5. The healing wound: A case for extracellular matrix

   • Karl T. Weber

   Basic Science Reviews Pages: 53 - 62

6. Cardiac renin angiotensin system in hypertrophy and the progression to heart failure

   • Louis J Dell'Italia
   • Suzanne Oparil

   Basic Science Reviews Pages: 63 - 72

7. Role of extracellular matrix metalloproteinases in cardiac remodelling

   • Suresh C. Tyagi
   • Venugopala S. Bheemanathini
   • Donald J. Voelker

   Basic Science Reviews Pages: 73 - 80