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A monocentric prospective cohort study with a consecutive-case enrolment design was implemented during a five-month period, having a total of 683 post-COVID patients eligible for inclusion and 635 evaluations with complete follow-up for chest HRCT. The target for post-COVID evaluations consisted of performing HRCT 90 days after a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. The studied patients had an average age of 54 years, ranging between 18 and 85 years old, and an average duration from the first symptoms until HRCT was performed of 74 days. At the post-COVID follow-up, 25.8% had a complete imagistic remission. The most common appearance with HRCT was \u201cground glass\u201d in 86.6% in patients with persistent COVID-19, followed by reticulations, present in 78.8%, and respectively pleural thickening in 41.2% of cases. The mean total HRCT scores were statistically significantly higher in patients older than 65 years (10.6 \u00b1 6.0) compared to the 40\u201365 group (6.1 \u00b1 6.1) and the 18\u201340 age group (2.7 \u00b1 4.8) (p &lt; 0.001). Chest HRCT is a \u201ctime window\u201d in documenting temporal persistent radiologic features of lung injury 90 days after SARS-CoV-2 infection, determining the pathologic basis of so-called \u201clong COVID\u201d. The complete remission was associated with a significantly higher average follow-up period and a significantly lower average patient age. 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