William Edwards Ladd, M.D. (1880-1967): the description of his bands

Because timely and appropriate surgical intervention offers the only chance for cure in these patients, Ladd emphasized that early suspicion for the disease is crucial. In October of 1936, Ladd followed with another article entitled ''Surgical Diseases of the Alimentary Tract in Infants'' introducing his method of surgically correcting malrotation that proved successful during his time at Boston Children's Hospital.4 Before the introduction of his procedure, there were only 15 operative recoveries out of 349 articles in the literature, and mortality rates of nonoperative patients were 100 per cent.