The Committee for Medicinal products for Human Use (CHMP) decided that SonoVue’ s benefits are greater than its risks to enhance the echogenicity (ultrasound contrast) of the blood in echocardiography in patients with suspected or established cardiovascular disease to provide opacification of cardiac chambers and enhance left ventricular endocardial border delineation, and in Doppler of macrovasculature (cerebral arteries, extracranial carotid or peripheral arteries and portal vein) or microvasculature (liver and breast lesions).