MICA and pericarditis: Recent reports indicate that serum carcinoembryonic antigen cell adhesion molecule 1 and MHC class I chain-related protein A can be used as biomarkers and prognostic markers in pericarditis patients, respectively, whereas the appearance of cardiac troponin-T (cTnT) signifies occurrence of acute and recurrent pericarditis (Hamm et al., 1997; Gamaza-Chulián et al., 2014).