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A bounded operator T defined on a Banach space is said to be polaroid if every isolated point of the spectrum is a pole of the resolvent. The "polaroid" condition is related to the conditions of being left polaroid, right polaroid, or a-polaroid. In this paper we explore all these conditions under commuting perturbations K. As a consequence, we give a general framework from which we obtain, and also extend, recent results concerning Weyl type theorems (generalized or not) for T + K, where K is an algebraic or a quasi-nilpotent operator commuting with T.