Missing eight weeks is standard operating procedure for athletes who’ve suffered a retinal detachment and Rutgers sophomore forward Greg Echenique will likely be out at least that long, according to medical experts.Echenique, a 6-foot-9, 265-pound forward from Guatire, Venezuela, underwent successful surgery to repair a detached retina in his left eye on Wednesday night at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital. He was accidentally poked in the eye by a teammate earlier this year during a pickup game at Rutgers.
“You’re probably talking about two months,” said Dr. Thaddeus Wandel, an opthamologist in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. with more than 20 years experience with the management of ocular trauma who did not treat Echenique.
