克山病与家畜白肌病在发病学和病理形态上有相似之处,有人指出动物白肌病是一种代谢性疾病,而硒则为其中重要的,直接或间接的原因之一。Yarrigton 证实缺硒北京鸭胃、肠平滑肌脂质增高。莫东旭发现儿童克山病肝组织有脂肪变性及慢型克山病人右室心肌有灶性脂肪浸润。 Keshan disease and livestock white muscle disease in the pathogenesis and pathological morphology similarities, it was pointed out that animal white muscle disease is a metabolic disease, and selenium is one of the important, one of the direct or indirect reasons. Yarrigton confirmed selenium-deficient Peking duck stomach, intestinal smooth muscle lipid increased. Motong Xu found that children with Keshan disease fatty liver degeneration and Keshan patients with right ventricular myocardial fat fatty infiltration.