Case No. Diagnosis App.time to ANA positivity or satisfying ACR criteria
1. Immune thrombocytopenia(ITP) 32 months
2. Immune thrombocytopenia 22 months
3. Immune thrombocytopenia, 
hypothyroidism
40 months
4. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia 7 months
5. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia,
hepatosplenomegaly, nephrotic syndrome.
11 months
6. ITP,APLA, severe PAH, high ESR 144 months
7. APLA, high ESR 8 months
8. Anemia, splenomegaly, Sjogren 6months
9. Secondary sjogren 4 months
10. Thyrotoxicosis, (ITP) 11 months
11. Polyarthralgia 8 months
12. Polyarthralgea, elevated ESR, anemia 4 months
Table 2: Cases which were initially ANA negative, with the time period to subsequent positivity on prospective and retrospective follow up.